Photo by DG-rad. Note that Seegars serves ANC 8E.

A bossy busybody, serving in an ANC?? Who would have guessed. In one of the fluffier puff pieces the paper has published, the Washington Post profiles Ward 8 ANC chair and activist Sandra Seegars and paints her as a neighborhood activist who is all up in everybody’s business — as if there is any other kind. But the story is so light on substance, it is nearly impossible to take away anything about what she actually does. Here’s a sampling of the things the Post has to say about her:

“Either you are going to love her, people say, or you are really, really not going to like her.”

“Seegars will not give a damn.”

“She is on a one-woman mission in Ward 8”

“Seegars is not afraid of you, or the mayor, or of any of the employees who answer the phone in any of the District’s agencies”

“She is not afraid to walk her neighborhood in Southeast”

And on it goes. There is almost nothing on the effectiveness of the Ward 8 ANC under no-nonsense Seegars. Though the profile is heavy on controversies in which she has been involved, it has nothing to say about whether her combative attitude makes for more effective leadership in her ANC. Could a Seegars-style leader solve the Big Bear Cafe liquor license stalemate? What does Seegars want for Ward 8, anyway? Who’s to say?